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by fanpuns 2619 days ago
It a my first time to see lithub.com. I was hoping it would be like Github for writers, but was disappointed.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

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There's https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/

and

https://english.stackexchange.com/

I'm not entirely sure what would be on a literature GitHub.

When I was first exposed to Medium (which was before I started coding), the coolaborative notes and highlights really felt like what I would want a literature github to be.

Just as a thought experiment, it's interesting that I think nothing of forking and maintaining a codebase for personal use, but I can't imagine participating in the writing of stories in the same way. Literature seems to maintain the primacy of the 'maintainer', but if I think about the evolution of storytelling generally, this doesn't seem to have always been the case

Wikipedia, sort of. Certainly in terms of devotion to openness, collaboration, etc. Haven't heard of a similar project for essays or fiction.